mari31666

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1. Highest nursing salary

   mari31666 replied to Nursebarebari's topic in General Nursing

   i started at 31 an hr plus night differential. we get for experience also. we have to pay co payments for our insurance and pay for parking. we have no food options on the night shift and are lucky if we can find left over milk for our coffee. i h...

2. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

   mari31666 replied to Trixxy's topic in Humor

   i thought i only heard those kind of things in new york

3. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

   mari31666 replied to Trixxy's topic in Humor

   :trout: How about: Never bring your new "baby mama" to your old "baby mama's" delivery. or your two pregnant girlfriends to the same labor and delivery unit on the same night at the same time. also don't eat a whole pizza at 3 am and then come to...

4. Do Nurses Eat Their Young?

   mari31666 replied to Brian's topic in Relations

   When I did orientation 3 yrs ago on L & d I had one great preceptor who I had for the main part. She was patient, kind and very caring. I nominated her that yr for nurse of distinction award and she won. The rest of the nurses were nasty, cru...

5. Duties of OB nurses (and others) Please feel free to add!

   mari31666 replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

   we do circulate and scrub for c/s, d&c, d&e and cerclage removals. we all do recovery room also. we are required to have BCLS. the circulator also does baby care, but peds is always at every c/s (circulator must page them at the start of c...

6. You Know You're a Nurse When...

   mari31666 replied to Brownms46's topic in Humor

   or more vaginas than a gigilo. i stare at them all night with three or four other people gathered around waiting for IT to happen. marissa -ob/gyn nurse.

7. You Know You're a Nurse When...

   mari31666 replied to Brownms46's topic in Humor

   i always ask them why if they had this pain for days did they find it necessary to come in via ems at 3 in the damn morning. as well as why would they think that eating an entire pizza/3 happy meals/and 2 day leftover chinese food WOULDN'T give them...

8. You Know You're a Nurse When...

   mari31666 replied to Brownms46's topic in Humor

   so many of these that i can relate too that i couldn't count them all. lol. it's great to see the humor in things. i will add: if you use unused laps from the broken down c section-to do dishes, clean the toilet, dry up spills. fixed my vintage pur...

9. Duties of OB nurses (and others) Please feel free to add!

   mari31666 replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

   we get scrub and circulate orientation when sign on. did two weeks just scrubbing. the nurse educator who worked for many years on l & d did mine. talk about hell. my facility has 3 ors on labor and delivery and we better well damn know how to...

10. Duties of OB nurses (and others) Please feel free to add!

    mari31666 replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

    i forgot translator. i'm in brooklyn ny. we got them all.

11. Duties of OB nurses (and others) Please feel free to add!

    mari31666 replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

    we circulate, scrub and do newborn care. as well as do all the ward clerk duties, do our own peri care and transfer our patients (cuz it's easier than hearing the techs tut and whine because you ask) and stock the rooms on the rare night that it's n...

12. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    mari31666 replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

    the other day i was assigned to recovery in labor and delivery so i got a repeat c/s that came in contracting. it seems to be that each time i get my hair done i end up circulating in the OR. so i whined a bit. after the 8 hr wait time since patie...

13. What Gets to You??

    mari31666 replied to mshooha's topic in Emergency

    in labor and delivery we see a lot of blood, body fluids and poop. i deal with it. i just hate counting the bloody laps from a c/section in the O/R when you circulate. and scrub in on a section gives me nightmares. could be that i had to scrub fo...

14. Non-viable baby, born alive -parent won't hold him, what do you do?

    mari31666 replied to enfermeraSG's topic in Ob/Gyn

    i just want to let you know that where i work we don't have policies about such things. usaully the parents hold their baby past the point of death. the other night i was covering another nurses pt. the couple did not want to see the baby at all....

15. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    mari31666 replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

    someone i know called me up and told me she had a tampon stuck up there and wanted my opinion of what to do (i work l&d) i stopped laughing after about 5 mins and asked her since when was it there and she told me 3 or 4 days. she kept trying to...